Heart on a chip - Extracellular multielectrode recordings from cardiac myocytes in vitro

Practical Methods in Cardiovascular Research

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 432-453

  Egert, Ulrich ^a   Meyer, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MULTI CHANNEL SYSTEMS MCS GMBH   (Germany)

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EID: 84892816079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26574-0_22     Document Type: Chapter

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